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  akuma is the new ken but an even bigger bitch because of his ultra. it is pretty obvious how much everyo... : eeeealmo
  • i play akuma on ranked and almost never use my ultra/super. they are incredibly difficult to setup. : empathe
  • Yeah. The better akuma players will play to his range and not even use the Demon. 3/4 times it will be av... : AroundTheFur1380
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    I hate the Akumas that just stay back completely, doing the 3-hit fireball over and over. When you try t... : Judecca
    • yup. welcome to akuma's zoning. : empathe
  • his ultra/super are super easy to avoid. I even avoid them at point-blank range. Just jump backward : shirif
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  So addicted: 49 hours played. 500+ games played. 340 ranked wins. 2008 peak BP. : empathe
  • impressive. If I counted offline battles against friends, my numbers may look like yours, as I have logge... : AroundTheFur1380
  • ! 63 hours played : pyide
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  The only way to console myself has been to realize that I am playing a different game than others online.... : lacker
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    if you master him, which few have, you will be smacking shotos down bad soon. Trust me, the 2 good player... : AroundTheFur1380
    • I don't know how to cancel stuff. I will keep working at it. I watched a Sakura player juggle my brother ... : lacker
    • yea that's what makes him so dangerous. you play against him so infrequently that when you do and it's a... : eeeealmo
  • because you are mexican : boomstickah
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  I just literally completed Blanka's Hard Trial 5, thank god that's over. : mechanicalgrape
  • that scares me, as Blanka is one of the matchups that gives me trouble. : AroundTheFur1380
  • I can't do the trials for shit. I just can't string together moves, and I dunno what's wrong. : pilgrimage
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  I'm also addicted. 52 hours played 1965 max bp (now at 1635) 637 fights, 358 wins 18 game win strea... : piser
  • that is time well spent, sir. We should start a club. : AroundTheFur1380
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  I can't fucking wait until the patch comes out so that we can have a proper shack tourney and upload our ... : mechanicalgrape
  • Oh god yes : AroundTheFur1380
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  Is it possible to do a 720 on the stick without jumping or covering it with a move? Seems like that's the... : mechanicalgrape
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    Good question, I can never get his ultra or anything down. :( : DM7
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      I found a good thread on it, answers most of if not all questions regarding it. http://forums.shoryuke... : mechanicalgrape
      • So you really don't have to do a a full circle it looks like, interesting. : DM7
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    it's easy.. you jump into the enemy, while you jump you do the 720, you land instantly go into his ultra : wtf242
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      Yeah, I can do a jump-in 720 no problem. I was wondering if it's possible to do a standing 720, which according to the SRK thread I posted, it's not.

      Mar 15, 2009 6:06pm PDT
      Yeah, I can do a jump-in 720 no problem. I was wondering if it's possible to do a standing 720, which acc... : mechanicalgrape
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    You're only supposed to use it following something else anyway. Using it by itself is extremely risky. : TrptJim
    • Check out the timing of his super here, pretty impressive: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2MfoJ2zrQ8#... : mechanicalgrape
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  neat tip} that's not in the manual - you can dash out of the end of a focus attack and it'll give you a c... : eeeealmo
  • fuck :( : eeeealmo
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    you can also "parry" projectiles by timing a focus attack and a dash cancel when the fireball hits you. : empathe
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      how does this work? what button combinations would i do? mp + mk for focus and then? : lacker
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        Dash during your focus charge, doesn't matter if it's forward or back. : mechanicalgrape
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          will i actually dash? : lacker
          • Yes : razlebol
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  SF4 I wish it had just asked everyone to install before giving the option to play. Every ps3 has a HD and... : lacker
  • But then people would have whined about this as well... They should have done it anyhow. : razlebol
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  I cant even top 1500 :( Mostly sitting around 1200 now. I make too many stupid mistakes. : r3ckless
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    Who is your main? : mechanicalgrape
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      Akuma. Sometimes I also play his elder bro. : r3ckless
      • Akuma is not a character for mistakes. You take a lot of damage and opening yourself up for a combo can h... : empathe
  • LOL I can't top 600. I've beaten a couple of people with 1000+ ratings but still I suck. I think I pani... : bRAINsick
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  i just got raped. went from like 1000bp to 700 something. ugh. I think this game pisses me off more than ... : wtf242
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    It's a normal throw, if you hit LK+LP at about the same time, it will cancel it. : razlebol
    • i tried that a bunch of times. tried to throw him before he threw me. didn't work. arghghghhgrhgrg : wtf242
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      doing this online is almost impossible with the slight lag. i'm pretty sure you have only a few frames to... : empathe
      • I just do it if I expect a throw, if he isn't throwing, I will throw in most situations. : razlebol
    • i cant stand the LK +LP as a throw so i bound throw to my trigger. can do kara throws all day now : gyokuro
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    If you back dash as soon as you get up, he can't throw you. Depending on your character, you have a few ... : empathe
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      hmm.. i'll try that. Been getting frustrated by some strange throws. Maybe its the shitty trigger on the ... : mc-fine
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        It's weird... I had a match with gegtik where he just nonstop threw me until i was dead.. PERFECT. It's ... : wtf242
        • SFIV equivalent of getting headshot after turning a corner in CS. :( : TrptJim
  • I had a Ken player that did that to my Sagat. Granted I am still learning to play with a joystick instea... : bRAINsick
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    I've pretty much stopped playing until all the parts for my custom joystick come in. And when I figure ou... : TrptJim
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      Where did you order from? Are you cutting a box yourself? : MoreVespeneGas
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        I'm not much of a carpenter, so I bought a pair of boxes from a custom builder in the Shoryuken forums. V... : TrptJim
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          Nice grab on the Norris boxes. They're pretty tough to get a hold of. :( : smackpiece
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            I was extremely lucky with today's restock. I wanted the box made of Cocobolo so bad, but it disappeared ... : TrptJim
            • I mean, just look at it! http://yfrog.com/0mhw1173j : TrptJim
        • how much were the custom boxes? can you provide a link to the SRK thread? i hate navigating through tho... : holycow
• Ugh. I lost 2 heartbreakers, by a sliver both times, to opponents that I usually would be the one getting... : AroundTheFur1380
• I just played like 20 unranked battles and lost all of them :( I started getting the hang of it towards t... : braaains
• i just dropped like 600 BP, fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu : fletch_